Third, as one moves farther east, away from Western Europe and closer to Russia, which also corresponds to the transition from wealth to poverty and from development to underdevelopment, one finds countries-Belarus, Serbia under Milosevic, again the Ukraine, much of Central Asia, and even Russia itself-that are more akin to the third World patterns observed here:poverty, underdevelopment, high unemployment, limited social changes, exceedingly weak civil society, and, therefore, an attraction to authoritarianism as a way to hold society together and relatively weak pressures so far for democracy, In other words, the patterns observed in the poorer countries of Eur-Asia (on the other words, the patterns observed in the poorer countries of Eur-Asia (on the border between Europe and Asia) are not all that different from those in other developing areas.